Aug 21, 2024

1. Biden's warning at the Democratic Party National Convention

2. Unpopular prime minister of Japan, Fumio Kishida, like US President Biden, will not seek a return to his office this fall

3. US State Department paves the way for wider war in the Middle East while teasing US voters by promising "a ceasefire" between Israel and Hamas

4. Financial oligarchs hungering for Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to lower interest rates so that they can resume making their parasitic deals

5. At the Democratic Party National Convention UAW President Shawn Fain strips to a t-shirt to reveal his utter hypocrisy and venality

6. Rank and file truck assembly workers are not impressed by the UAW’s phony “Keep the Promise” campaign

7. Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program revealed by UN inspector as a “breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery”

8. SAG-AFTRA bureaucracy demonstrates its interest in scuttling worker demands to placate huge entertainment corporations

9. A milestone in the establishment of a totalitarian police state: German interior minister seeks to implement measures that go beyond European recommendations

10. Devastating to local communities: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania plans to save money by reducing the number of its schools

11. Sentencing of peasant leaders of mine workers to harsh terms sparks widespread outrage in Peru

12. Anti-war journalist Richard Medhurst seized and held at London’s Heathrow Airport for expressing an opinion or belief that is supportive of a prescribed organization, but without an explanation of what this meant

13. Members of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra resign in protest to support persecuted pianist, Jayson Gillham

17. 84 years since Stalin had Leon Trotsky assassinated

18. Vote for Joseph Kishore and Jerry White in 2024!